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Worsley
Worsley, a village in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, was the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal (opened 1761) and entrance to the 46-mile Worsley Navigable Levels underground coal canals built for the Duke of Bridgewater.
Worst Cooks in America
Worst Cooks in America is a Food Network reality cooking competition running since 2010, in which bad home cooks or celebrities train in a boot camp; defined by Anne Burrell's long hosting run and post-2025 seasons hosted by Jeff Mauro and Tiffany Derry.
Worst Cooks in America season 28
Worst Cooks in America season 28, Celebrity Edition: Heroes vs. Villains, Food Network, aired January 5 to February 2, 2025; ten reality stars, mentors Jeff Mauro and Antonia Lofaso, $25,000 charity prize, first season without Anne Burrell.
Worst Cooks in America season 29
Worst Cooks in America season 29, subtitled Talented & Terrible, is the July 28 to September 1, 2025 Food Network season co-hosted by Anne Burrell and Gabe Bertaccini, Burrell's final season before her June 17, 2025 death.
Worst Cooks in America season 30
Worst Cooks in America season 30, subtitled Reality Check, is a 2026 Food Network celebrity season mentored by Jeff Mauro and Tiffany Derry after Anne Burrell's death; Reza Farahan won the $25,000 charity prize.
Worst Ex Ever
Worst Ex Ever is a Blumhouse-produced Netflix true-crime docuseries and spin-off of Worst Roommate Ever, premiering August 14, 2024. Four stories per season about violent, deceptive partners; season 2 covers the Deadpool Killer and 90 Day Fiancé's Geoffrey Paschel.
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (ILO Convention No. 182): ILO treaty requiring immediate elimination of slavery, sexual exploitation, illicit-use, and hazardous child labour; adopted 17 June 1999, in force 19 November 2000, universally ratified by all 187 ILO members in 2020.
Worst Girl in America
WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA (Worst Girl in America) is Slayyyter's third studio album, released March 27, 2026 on RECORDS/Columbia; an electroclash-electropop record that gave her her first Billboard number one.
Worst Girl in the World Tour
WOR$T GIRL IN THE WORLD TOUR, Slayyyter's fourth headline tour (2026), supporting WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA; July 26–November 5, 2026, all dates sold out, Missouri-home stage set, Wor$t Man in America companion album.
Worst Neighbor Ever
Worst Neighbor Ever is a 2026 Netflix true-crime docuseries, third in the Worst Ever franchise after Worst Roommate Ever and Worst Ex Ever. Four episodes cover deadly neighbor disputes, directed by Cynthia Childs for Blumhouse Television and ITV America.
Worst Roommate Ever
Worst Roommate Ever is a Netflix true-crime docuseries from Blumhouse Television and ITV America, premiering March 1, 2022, covering real cases of murderous, con-artist roommates across two seasons and spawning the Worst Ever franchise.
Worst-case execution time
Worst-case execution time (WCET) is the longest time a piece of code can take on a specific processor across all inputs, a key parameter in hard real-time systems.
Worsted
Worsted: wool yarn and fabric spun from combed, parallel long-staple fibers, giving smooth, strong, tightly twisted yarn and hard-finished cloth; named for Worstead, Norfolk; the combed counterpart to carded woolen, used for suiting and fine knitwear.
Worster-Drought syndrome
Worster-Drought syndrome, or congenital suprabulbar paresis, is a cerebral palsy variant, described by Cecil Worster-Drought in 1956, that weakens the mouth and throat muscles from birth.
Wort
Wort: (1) the sugary malt-extract liquid, 80-90% water, that yeast ferments into beer, made by mashing and boiled with hops; (2) an archaic Old English word (wyrt) for plant or herb surviving in names like St. John's wort and mugwort. Also German Wort (word).
Wörth
Kastell Wörth (Numeruskastell Wörth, Castra of Wörth): Roman numerus fort on the Main Limes at Wörth am Main, Bavaria; 0.8 ha stone fort, about 160-man garrison, fort bath, vicus, likely Roman ship dock, UNESCO World Heritage since 2005.
Worth (film)
Worth (2021) is a Sara Colangelo drama starring Michael Keaton as Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, based on Feinberg's memoir What Is Life Worth, released by Netflix September 3, 2021.
Worth Huff Rodebush
Worth Huff Rodebush (1887–1959) was an American physical chemist at the University of Illinois, known for co-developing the hydrogen bond concept with Wendell Latimer and for pioneering infrared absorption methods.
Worth It
Worth It is BuzzFeed's food web series (2016–2023) in which Steven Lim, Andrew Ilnyckyj, and Adam Bianchi taste the same dish at affordable, middle-tier, and luxury prices, deciding which is most worth it; 12 seasons, over one billion views.
Worth It (Fifth Harmony song)
"Worth It" (Fifth Harmony song, featuring Kid Ink) is a 2015 single from the album Reflection, produced by Stargate with a saxophone hook by Ori Kaplan; it peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, hit No. 3 in the UK, and is RIAA 3x Platinum.
Worth Magazine
Worth is an American media brand for affluent investors, launched by Fidelity Investments in February 1992 and now owned by Clarim Holdings with a quarterly magazine and events.
Worthing
Worthing is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, which developed from a small fishing hamlet into a fashionable Georgian resort before being incorporated in 1890.
Worthington Enterprises
Worthington Enterprises is an American manufacturer of building and consumer products, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It became a standalone company on December 1, 2023, when Worthington Industries separated its steel business as Worthington Steel.
Worthy de Jong
Worthy de Jong (born 1988, Paramaribo) is a Dutch basketball player, Paris 2024 Olympic 3x3 gold medalist and tournament MVP, former ZZ Leiden and FIBA Europe Cup all-time steals leader, now with Amsterdam Rabobank.
Wortley Roman villa
Wortley Roman villa, a second-century Romano-British site in South Gloucestershire, discovered 1981 and excavated by Keele University 1983–1996; notable for an underground cult-room cellar and a rural bathhouse with a 13.7 m swimming pool.
Wortmannin
Wortmannin is a furanosteroid metabolite of fungi that acts as a potent, irreversible inhibitor of PI3K enzymes, isolated in 1957 and serving as the founding research tool of the PI3K field.
Worzel Gummidge
Worzel Gummidge is Barbara Euphan Todd's living scarecrow, first heard on BBC radio in 1935, first Puffin paperback (1941), famous through Jon Pertwee's ITV series 1979-1981, Worzel Gummidge Down Under (1987-89), and Mackenzie Crook's 2019 BBC revival.
Worzel Gummidge (TV series)
Worzel Gummidge TV series: British children's show based on Barbara Euphan Todd's books, Southern Television 1979-1981 with Jon Pertwee, plus 1953, New Zealand, and 2019 Mackenzie Crook BBC versions.
Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku (ヲタクに恋は難しい)
Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku (ヲタクに恋は難しい, Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii) is Fujita's josei office-romance manga about adult otaku couples, serialized in Comic POOL 2015–2021 across 11 volumes, with a 2018 A-1 Pictures anime and 2020 live-action film.
Would It Kill You to Laugh?
Would It Kill You to Laugh? is a 2022 Peacock sketch comedy special by A24, starring Kate Berlant and John Early as estranged sitcom stars reuniting on TV, directed by Andrew DeYoung, Emmy-nominated for writing.